Winning is not a secret that belongs to a very few, winning is something that we can learn by studying ourselves, studying the environment and making ourselves ready for any challenge that is in front of us.

For me, chess is a language, and if it's not my native tongue, it is one I learned via the immersion method at a young age.

Chess is a unique cognitive nexus, a place where art and science come together in the human mind and are then refined and improved by experience.

With this mistake I deprived myself of the possibility to make a contribution to the treasury of chess art.

Putin is like Al Capone.

Tarrasch's 'dogmas' are not eternal truisms, but merely instructional material presented in an accessible and witty form, those necessary rudiments from which one can begin to grasp the secrets of chess.

Russia is a mafia state today, and Putin is its top godfather.